Getting Published!

If you subscribe to CREATING KEEPSAKES

 and got you magazine you will see that I have a layout published on pg 33!!!

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Now, I am no way an expert on getting published as I really don't get it.

One of  my goals for 2011 was to be published

in a paper magazine and to be published in Creating Keepsakes

was definitely a dream come true!

 Now I have been published online many times and

  years ago I won two contests and a scrapbook convention and both projects where

published in a paper magazine (Memories magazine - which is no longer around)

but it eluded me how others get published

and some get published over and over.

 I talked to many, many girls who have been published and I will pass on that advice

because they were right.

So what's the big secret to getting published???

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Keep submitting!

Lots and Lots and LOTS of projects!

I submitted a lot of layouts this year and right when I was so tired of hearing nothing

and ready to quit submitting I got an email from Creating Keepsakes!

AND it wasn't something I had just submitted - so if you are saving it for publishing don't post it!

Here are some insider scoops I also learned which 

did not make me feel better but helped me understand the process.

Maybe it will help you.

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They have a magazine to sell and the pages

not only have to be good but they have to compliment each other -

so you may have the perfect layout but the wrong color or style or whatever.

They have THOUSANDS of layouts to choose from so if your picture isn't good

to begin with it's probably going to get overlooked.

It's not personal - you may be a fabulous scrapbooker

but it's not what they need THIS TIME so keep submitting!

 One of the girls I talked to said she submits 20-30 layouts

for each call EVERYTIME - and maybe she will get one picked up!

Pay attention to the type of project they need.

*added after I posted thanks to K. - good journaling!

And even though they picked your layout -

they tell you it still could get cut before the final edit comes out

(which is why I didn't say anything until I saw it with my own eyes!)

And that's all I know.

Not much. 

But it sure is exciting to see

your layout in a magazine!

Oh and after I got the news for Creating Keepsakes I got an email from

Stamping, Stationary, Scrapbooking magazine

that they are going to publish one of my projects in the Jan issue!!!

The project they picked was something I sent in from the call BEFORE the

current call (I had missed the current call!)

I haven't seen that one yet as it doesn't come out until Jan 1 but  it

just goes to show if you want something

Don't give up!